The Social Construction of Europe systematically introduces and applies a social constructivist perspective to the study of European integration. A strong international list of contributors provide new and important insights to a key area of contemporary study and research
Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy
Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy
The Social Evolution of International Politics critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from realism and neoliberalism, to the English School and constructivism.
'The Social Evolution of International Politics' critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from realism and neoliberalism, to the English School and constructivism.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Rousseau's tragic conception of freedom -- Freedom and method -- Outline -- 1. The Future of Freedom -- The freedom-machine -- Bits, genes, and (freedom-)machines -- Linux as iconic for altruism -- Selfishness -- 2. Science and Society -- Critique of progress -- Hobbes and social constructivism -- Rousseau, social constructivism and its extension to the social contract -- Knowing nature -- Rousseau as an immodest witness on education -- Nature, science and colonialism -- Conclusion -- 3. Social Contracting and Freedom -- Introduction -- The method and the contract -- Social contracting, in between Rousseau and STS -- Let's not be modern/or the legacy of the general will -- Equality and governing -- Pacts and properties -- Method and truth -- Our own attempt at Enlightenment -- Freedom machines and beyond -- Freedom and security -- Freedom and the natural world -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Analytic social epistemology -- Common sense versus collective memory -- Consensus versus dissent -- Criticism -- Disciplinarity versus interdisciplinarity -- Epistemic justice -- Evolution -- Expertise -- Explaining the cognitive content of science -- Explaining the normative structure of science -- Feminism -- Folk epistemology -- Free enquiry -- Historiography -- Information science -- Knowledge management -- Knowledge policy -- Knowledge society -- Kuhn, Popper and logical positivism -- Mass media -- Multiculturalism -- Naturalism -- Normativity -- Philosophy versus sociology -- Postmodernism -- Progress -- Rationality -- Relativism versus constructivism -- Religion -- Rhetoric -- Science and technology studies -- Science as a social movement -- Science wars -- Social capital versus public good -- Social constructivism -- Social epistemology -- Social science -- Sociology of knowledge -- Translation -- Truth, reliability and the ends of knowledge -- Universalism versus relativism -- University.
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Iran in an Emerging New World Order -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- (A) Studying Iran's International Relations Amid Changing International and Domestic Power Relations -- External Dialectic: Exploring the International Geography of Power (World Order) -- Brief Account of International, Domestic and Regional Arenas -- Discussing Iran's International Relations Beyond the Iran-U.S. Stand-off -- (B) Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- A -- B -- P -- Official Documents (Excerpts) -- Chapter 2: A Critical Geopolitics of International Relations: A Theoretical Derivation -- Introduction -- Iran's Geostrategic Location: A Salient Spot of Geopolitical Rivalry -- Broad Consensus in Iranian Foreign-Policy Studies: Interplay Between Structure/Culture and Internal/External -- (A) Engaging with the "Constructivist Turn" in IR Theory: On Constructivism and Critical Geopolitics -- Blind Spots on the Realist Radar -- Critical Geopolitics: Critically Investigating Geopolitical Representations -- Constructivism: The Social Construction of National Interests -- The Construction of Interests: Primacy of Ideational or Material Underpinnings? -- IR Scholarship in the IRI: Geopolitics and Constructivism -- (B) Outlining a Critical Geopolitics of International Relations: Defining the Agent-System Arrangement -- Summary -- The Agent: The State and Its Foreign-Policy Élite -- The System Level: An Increasingly Multipolar International System-From Unipolarity to Imperial Interpolarity -- Theory -- The Dialectic Construction of Foreign-Policy Culture -- Agent: The State and Its Élite -- The State-Society Complex -- The Élite -- The Power Élite: Some Conceptual Clarifications -- Élite Consciousness.
This book examines succinctly the substantive assumptions of each one of the main international relations theories, namely Realism, liberalism, constructivism, the English school, critical theory and idealism, against China's choices and behavior as an international actor.
Grounded on tenets of cultural realism and social constructivism, Monica Gariup develops a theoretical framework to enhance our understanding of security culture at the European Union level and the implications of discourse and practice in European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP).
Grounded on tenets of cultural realism and social constructivism, Monica Gariup develops a theoretical framework to enhance our understanding of security culture at the European Union level and the implications of discourse and practice in European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP).